NEW YORK — Friday could have been called “National Actors Releasing Albums Day”: Kevin Bacon, Scarlett Johansson and Ezra Miller are among the famous faces who dropped new music.

But releasing music for those well-known for their roles in movies hasen’t always been a breeze.

“It’s crazy how actors bring out some kind of hostility from a rock music crowd that rock (fans think), ‘We have our idols and we don’t want you to try to share that.’ That kind of hero worship drives me crazy. I just find it such nonsense,” Michael Bacon, Kevin’s older brother and bandmate, said in an interview this week. Read More

Together, the siblings have focused on another dimension of their artistic impulses through their band, aptly named The Bacon Brothers. They have played together since childhood, and have been recording and touring for more than 20 years....